Science showcase: Columbia open house offers hands-on lessons about how Earth works
Do you know about Oobleck?
You can learn about that non-Newtonian fluid and more science on Oct. 14 at the annual Columbia Climate School Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory campus located in Palisades overlooking the Hudson.
Columbia's world-renown scientists will explain the work they do, and offer hands-on earth-science demonstrations. Most activities take place outside, rain or shine.
What you'll see and do
Some of the day's offerings include the chance to:
See samples from Lamont's core repository, including sediment from below the ocean floor.
Take a tour of Ice Age evidence in our area; take a "dendro-eco hike" that demonstrates the importance of using trees to study climate change.
Join a "bathtub science" demonstration that uses cornstarch and water (the recipe for Oobleck) to illustrate the dynamics of the solid earth.
When, where to go
The open house takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14.
The Earth Observatory campus is located at 61 Route 9W in Palisades but a shuttle parking lot is at Crestron Electronics, 7 Volvo Drive, Rockleigh, New Jersey.
School or other large groups, or those with special needs, can call 845-365-8968for information and to make arrangements. All children must be supervised at open house and all such groups must be chaperoned.
For more information, visit openhouse.ldeo.columbia.edu/
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Earth science lessons for public at Columbia University in Rockland NY
